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John Wilson Carmichael, The Morning Fleet in a Calm
Photo courtesy of Dave Penman (All rights reserved)
Details
- Country House
- Trewithen
- Title(s)
- The Morning Fleet in a Calm
- Medium and support
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Overall height: 28 cm, Overall width: 39 cm
- Artist
- John Wilson Carmichael (1800-1862)
- Catalogue Number
- TN8
- Inscription
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- Lower right
- Signed and dated lower right 'JW Carmichael/ 184?'
Description
This picture of a fishing fleet is typical of Carmichael’s more modest marine paintings. Although the location is unidentified, as with most of Carmichael’s works, it is almost certainly place-specific. A clue is provided possibly by the lighthouse and pier at the extreme left of the composition, which suggests that the setting is probably somewhere along the north-east coast, the location of many of Carmichael’s marine paintings.